About
selecting VMware virtual resources for restore

You can restore a complete virtual machine, or its
Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) file, for disaster recovery
purposes.

You can restore individual files or folders that
were backed up from inside the VMDK file, if you selected the
Granular Recovery Technology option for the backup job.

In the restore view, a
virtual machine that was enabled to use Granular Recovery
Technology appears under its physical network or netbios name. If
you expand the network name, then individual drives, files, and
folders appear.

Virtual machines also
appear in the Restore view under VMware VirtualCenter and ESX
Servers. Under VMware VirtualCenter and ESX Servers, the virtual
machines appear by their VirtualCenter display name, or the name
that you provided for the virtual machine during its creation. If
you expand the display name for a virtual machine, its contents
appear. If you select the virtual machine by its display name, you
can recover the entire virtual machine and its VMDK files.